Bash Basics Part 2 of 8 | Creating & Editing Text FIles

This is an introduction to basic text file editing and creation in bash.

[xnax]

Just revived my 5 year old netbook with Linux Mint (first time Linux user) and feel like a total badass doing these obviously very simple things :D I love it!

[marshallakersjr]

I agree, the pi is a great way to learn the bash shell environment, and to get a good feel on how a lot of commands behave.

[hitsubitsa]

*PERFECT VIDEO FOR A BEGINNER UNLIKE MANY OTHER YOUTUBE TUTORIALS*

[ivarsstrazds]

best one on al thel internet. wish the expensive courses were so well explained and worded! top stuff!!!

[HebaruSan]

The typos are probably helpful, since they show new users that nothing terrible happens if you make a mistake.
... most of the time. ;)

[zynaxsoft]

"Less is more" - Joe Collins

[dawsigi]

Thank you so much for this series, it's great :)

[berlincmos]

great tutorial thanks alot my dear joe collins

[adelai]

what a great series! You make learning BASH really easy. Thank you a lot. I am now starting to think echo "who needs a graphical system? I will use bash instead" > great_tutorial.txt . I am currently working in BASH for windows but I think I'll be switching to a linux when I get to know a litle more about BASH.

[DrayseSchneider]

Intuitive, based on my observations, is simply what you area used too and comfortable using. For instance, I'm used to vi(m) so I find EMACS and Pico unintuitive. It's not necessarily that they are but I'm forced into learning new ways to do the things I want and know how to do in another editor.

[bblitefootbilly]

ahh this is what i need to learn i was getting lost on tutorials that said you need to append n stuff id never heard of before :)

[mohfreestyl]

Nano is very quick flexible tool .
this is fun thank you.

[marshallakersjr]

Joe always has great videos. If you really won't to learn the bash shell, purchase a raspberry pi and start doing projects with it. Keep following Joe, he has really good material in his videos for all you linux newbies. Keep up all the great work Joe!

[lenylenynka]

Hello, when I tried the cat and less command it wrote junk.txt is a directionary what does it mean and do I do about it? However your vids are awesome!

[HiDefHDMusic]

This helps so much with messing with my raspberry pi haha.

[maspoetry]

happy 100K :-)
A nice useful command is also $ head -n N
to show N lines of the file. without the flags (just type head) returns first ten lines (executes head -n 10)
There is a similar one called tail.

[SuperSriRanjani]

Cat command, less command, adding a line to the bottom of a fiile using echo command from 7:55 and using nano command to create a new file or read a fiile

[rrook]

some call the paramedics ...using VI editor giv eyou sence what it would be like if you paraplegic. MY MOUSe I CANT USE MY PC without my pointer thingy....vi isn't that brutal onc yo get use to commands..

[ad]

You can also write text to a file without the use of quotation marks by doing it like this: echo > junk1.txt Hello my name is Adam or echo >> junk1.txt This is the line added at the end.

[ruthangelina]

nice. Could you do tutorials on submitting batch jobs to LSF?